Again, it’s a pleasure to take part in this debate about NHS workforce issues, and, obviously, I’ll concentrate on doctors and nurses, the parts that I know most about. Obviously, we’re all very well aware of GP shortages. The Royal College of General Practitioners’s figures show about 400 vacant GP post in Wales today. Whenever practices advertise for a new GP, sometimes they get no applications whatsoever. It’s very difficult to have fill posts nowadays.

Now, it wasn’t always like this. I’m significantly older than the medical student age quoted by Mark Reckless, and, back in the day, being a general practitioner was a chosen occupation. In other words, there was a queue of people, and you had to really fight hard to get a GP post, back in the early 1980s. So, it wasn’t always like this, but lots of things have changed. One of the things that changed, obviously, was that the Conservatives in 1990 brought in the internal market and completely wrecked the workforce planning we had in the NHS for the 1960s, the 1970s and the 1980s. We still haven’t fully recovered the ground.

Now, general practice itself has changed, obviously. It is now relentless and unremitting. Again, back in the 1980s and 1990s—